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And so, in that sense, there's kind of an intimate relationship between the Empire and the Empire's subjects. But then, there's also this idea that, you know, a lot of the negative effects of the Empire were accidental. And that's exactly what I was talking about in my book - that there are unintended consequences that resulted from British imperialism. The Empire's children were not in any sense just the noble, conscious, purposeful Englishmen of the nineteenth century.
ELKINS: So, that's sort of the idea of the argument from design in the eighteenth century - you know, the idea that, God, if there is a God, created the world; he created a wonderful and balanced and harmonious world, and that the natural world was the best world that we could create. And so, therefore, we look at the world and we, at least in the case of the British Empire, look at the world and we say, this is just a case of God's creation. We needed the Empire to sort of force this world into a kind of harmony. And so, you know, as we look at the world, we see great benefits for us. It's a beautiful world. You know, the climate's great. There's great liberty and freedom. So, you know, it's a grand thing.
If you look at, let's say, something like the work of Michael Mann on policing and the development of the English working class, and the way that that was an idea that was implicit in a lot of British reform projects. So, there's, you know, there's the military aspect of it, but there's also the reformist aspect of it, right? And so, this idea that you actually have to have, not just rule but provide people with some kind of sense of what they're being ruled towards, a kind of developmentalism that's a little bit more subtle than what we see in, say, the colonies, but it's a very important part of the colonial project.
SCHMIDT: And, John Tofik Karam - we talked about the playing field -- you know, the influence of the British Empire, and ultimately you know, the foundation of the modern world. John Tofik Karam, your book is really about the British Empire as the playing field, right? And, what you're doing in that project is bringing to the surface the history of racism, right, that's been going on, and the true, you know, the, the race relations or the, the playing field, right? And, just to give you a little bit more context on this, because I think this is an important part of what your book is about, what you're really trying to show, is this, right, you know, the British Empire was built on racism, right? And, so this is, this is part of the foundation of the modern world.
This project publishes the book Beyond the Color Line: The Underground Railroad in Kansas City, written by NEH Fellow Ashley Stedman (Federal Award Identification Number FT-126732-14), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The book analyzes the practices of the Underground Railroad, a safe passage for escaping slaves from southern bondage into free states, in Kansas City. Stedman places this often-neglected historical moment in the context of the larger movements of black nationalism that were part of the momentum behind the Civil Rights Movement and the larger anti-slavery movement. Her study demonstrates how the Underground Railroad in Kansas City had a profoundly racial and gendered character, in which white abolitionists forged ties with the freeborn black elite of the city, rather than the enslaved. The book also shows the strategic value of the Underground Railroad in Kansas City as a way to evade the vigilance of the slave patrols. 827ec27edc